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“When I was really young, I used to lie a lot. Now I get paid to do it.”

“Definitely directing is the thing I like the most because this is where everything you know can be used. It's the most personal process ever. It's the most demanding one, but again, rewarding.”

Knows Used Process

Author:Diego Luna

“When I was a teenager, my dad used to put a lot of pressure on me to be successful, and I'd really beat myself up about things like losing martial arts competitions.”

Art Used Successful Dad Losing Beats Pressure Competition My Dad Teenager Being Successful Martial Arts

Author:Dolph Lundgren

“I used to wear makeup all the time when I was younger. Now I go out and I don't care.”

Care Used Don't Care I Don't Care Makeup

Author:Jane Leeves

“I still fall asleep with the TV on, because I'm used to falling asleep with people yelling 'Action!' and 'Cut!”

People Stills Action Used Fall Cutting Tvs Yelling Falling Asleep

Author:Jennifer Lynch

“I suppose I am a frustrated musician so I annoy my family by playing guitar in the house. I used to be into acoustic stuff but my son Joseph is learning drums, so now I have an electric guitar and we play Metallica. We have an amp and a PA in the garage with his drum kit.”

Play Used House Stuff Son Musician My Family Guitar Used To Be My Son Annoying Electric Frustrated Garage Acoustics Playing Guitar Metallica Electric Guitar

Author:Kevin McKidd

“That's something Mary Lou Williams used to tell me: If you're not feeling right about what you're doing and you play a minor tune it all comes back, falls into place. I don't know if that's true, but I do it.”

Ifs Knows Play Feelings Used Fall Tunes Mary Minors Fall Into Place

Author:Marian McPartland

“The fact is that a car used by Gerry Adams and myself during the course of the Mitchell review was bugged by elements within British military intelligence.”

Facts Used Courses Military Car Elements British Reviews Military Intelligence

Author:Martin McGuinness

“Think of Frank Capra and Preston Sturges. They used the same actors over and over again.”

Thinking Used Actors Frank

Author:Matthew Modine

“I used to have a great love for Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy, the big boys of the last century.”

Bigs Lasts Used Literature Boys Century Great Love Dostoyevsky

Author:Norman MacCaig

“Whether you like it or not, the last few years I'd be the first one to tell you I haven't been the Pedro Martinez that I'm used to being.”

Years Firsts Lasts Used Havens You Like It

Author:Pedro Martinez

“I come from a political family. My father was a freedom fighter. He was a prominent leader of the locality and member of the Congress party. He spent 10 years in British prisons. In the evening, in our living room, the only subject we used to discuss was politics. So politics was not unfamiliar to me.”

Years Political Used Father Rooms Party Leader Subjects Members Prison Congress British Fighter Evening Living Room Unfamiliar Prominent Freedom Fighter Locality Congress Party

Author:Pranab Mukherjee

“In the little town where I live in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, we now have a 'Public Safety Complex' around the corner from what used to be our hokey Andy Griffith-esque fire station.”

Littles Used Fire Towns Safety Complexes Corners Used To Be Stations County Around The Corner Massachusetts Hampshire Little Towns Public Safety

Author:Rachel Maddow

“You know I never used to be a bad flyer, but I did start to have a fear of flying after I shot a movie where I was terrorized on a plane. I made Wes Craven's 'Red Eye'. I don't think they're linked but it does make me pause and wonder if they are, so perhaps I will explore that in therapy some day.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Doe Made Eye Used Wonder Shots Red Flying Used To Be Planes Therapy Pauses Linked Flyers Fear Of Flying Red Eye

Author:Rachel McAdams

“I grew up in Europe, and I used to like those very slow-moving European films. I've been contaminated by the American TV culture, and I just want things to move faster now.”

Want Film Moving Used Culture Tvs Grew Grew Up Europe Faster

Author:Rebecca De Mornay

“And understand that scarce spectrum is used today for example for cell phone operators, they have to pay for the airwaves they use, for their services.”

Use Today Used Pay Example Phones Cells Spectrum Cell Phone Scarce Operators

Author:Robert Waterman McChesney

“There's a certain way people are used to seeing nude women, and that's in a submissive, coy pose, not looking at the camera. And in this poster, I'm looking dead into the camera with no expression on my face. I think it freaks a lot of people out.”

People Thinking Way Faces Used Certain Seeing Expression Cameras Freak Posters Submissive Posing

Author:Rooney Mara

“I used to not really like going to the gym when I was playing tournaments because I'd be sore and stiff. But the more you keep doing it, the less soreness you have. And you actually start to enjoy it.”

Used Enjoy Gym Tournaments Soreness

Author:Rory McIlroy

“I want to venture into film more, and I think that a nice way to transition into doing that would be a documentary. I think it would be interesting to find one person that really fascinated me or maybe a band and travel with them, but I don't think I could do it like I used to do it.”

Thinking Way Want Persons Would Be Film Used Interesting Nice Band Transition Fascinated Venture Documentaries

Author:Ryan McGinley

“Companies, to date, have often used the excuse that they are only beholden to their shareholders, but we need shareholders to think of themselves as stakeholders in the well being of society as well.”

Thinking Needs Wells Used Company Excuse Well Being Shareholders Stakeholder

Author:Simon Mainwaring

“I used to get embarrassed about the fact I liked fashion. I still get a bit cringy.”

Stills Facts Used Bits Fashion Embarrassed

Author:Stella McCartney

“There were times I used to go to parties when I was, you know, like 15-, 16-years-old, and I'd always bring my guitar, and all my friends would be like, sing one of the Smokey songs. And everything I sang was his music, and I could sound just like him.”

Knows Years Would Be Used Song Sound Party My Friends Guitar

Author:Teena Marie

“Stories come from other shows at other studios where only 2,000 rounds were actually used and the money for the other 3,000 went right into the studio pockets. Corners were cut and that production suffered. Knock wood, that hasn't happened to us.”

Stories Shows Used Cutting Happened Rounds Productions Studios Corners Woods Pockets

Author:Vic Morrow

“Our parents are obviously proud, but they're still trying to get used to the fact that we're in a band. I have a feeling my mom would actually like One Direction if I wasn't in it!”

Ifs Trying Stills Facts Feelings Used Parent Mom Proud Band My Mom One Direction

Author:Zayn Malik

“I was a bit of a handful when I was a kid because I was quite hyperactive. Even in the house my mum used to put me in my pram because I was so full-on.”

Kids Used House Bits Mum Handful Prams

Author:Zayn Malik

“I don't watch much television. My old TV agent used to always get mad at me because he'd send me out on auditions and I'd be like, 'What's this show?' and he'd be like, 'It's literally the top show on television.' I wasn't allowed to watch TV as a kid.”

Shows Kids Used Watches Television Tvs Mad Agents Auditions

Author:Zosia Mamet

“Look at Ayatollah Khomeini's revolution and the slogans that they used: anti-imperialism; anti-colonialism; the struggle of the have-nots against the haves; the state monopoly over economy, which was very much patterned after the Soviet Union. All of these things did not come out of Islam. Islam is not that developed.”

Looks States Used Struggle Economy Revolution Unions Islam Soviet Colonialism Soviet Union Imperialism Monopoly Slogans Khomeini

Author:Azar Nafisi

“I've learned there's nothing wrong with being a little fussy. I used to pride myself on being low-maintenance - I wore it like a badge of honor.”

Littles Used Pride Honor Lows I've Learned Maintenance Badges Fussy

Author:Becki Newton

“Then in my early teens, when the home computer bubble was blowing, I had one of the first, an Acorn Atom, and used to write primitive adventures on that.”

Writing Firsts Home Used Adventure Computer Atoms Bubbles Teens Primitive Acorns

Author:Graham Nelson

“I am producing sounds that people are not used to hearing from the harp.”

People Used Sound Hearing Harps

Author:Joanna Newsom

“Jesus' kingdom was not like the popular expectation. He used the phrase 'kingdom of God' with a different meaning. His kingdom was not of this world (John 18:36). It was not like the kingdoms of this world. It was the kingdom of God, a supernatural kingdom. It was invisible to most people (John 3:3)-it could not be understood or experienced without the Holy Spirit (v. 6). God is Spirit, and the kingdom of God is a spiritual kingdom.”

People World Different Spiritual Used Spirit Jesus This World Holy Expectations Understood Invisible Kingdoms Phrases Holy Spirit Kingdom Of God Different Meanings

Author:Tom Harpur

“I speak Farsi, German, Dari, and I understand Turkish, but I haven't used it since 1985, so I'm a bit rusty.”

Used Speak Bits Havens Turkish

Author:Navid Negahban

“When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since.”

Littles Said Used Mother Air Needed Draws Fingers Pencils

Author:Oscar Niemeyer

“I used to love the Beatles and the Stones and I'd always want to hang out with them, even though they were about seven years older.”

Want Years Used Stones Seven Hanging Out Seven Years Used To Love

Author:Peter Noone

“We were poor. But my mom never accepted that. She worked hard to become a residential contractor - got her master's with honors at the University of New Orleans. I used to go to every class with her. Her father was my paternal figure.”

Hard Used Father Poor Class Figures Masters Mom Honor University My Mom Accepted New Orleans Contractor

Author:Frank Ocean

“Very few cinematographers, other than the Europeans, know how to light women like they used to in the old days.”

Knows Light Used Know How Old Days Cinematographers

Author:Jennifer O'Neill

“The Misfits pretty much funds the Misfits. It used to cost me money to be in the band. I think we got paid the last gig we ever did. After that, we had to work to support our families.”

Thinking Lasts Used Support Cost Band Paid Our Family Fund Gigs Misfits

Author:Gerald Caiafa

“I grew up in San Antonio, Texas, and went to a big high school called Douglas McArthur where there was a lot of track and a lot of football. It was a bit like 'Friday Night Lights.' I used to spend a lot of time at the track.”

Bigs Light School Used Night Bits Football Grew Grew Up High School Track Texas Friday Friday Night Antonio Night Light San Antonio Friday Night Lights

Author:Norah O'Donnell

“It's funny to be discovered by a lot of people who didn't know you before. People always used to say, 'Do you shop at Home Depot?' or 'Does your kid go to such and such school?' They want to know why they know me, even if they don't know my name. I don't think that's a bad thing, by the way; I think it's nice to be kind of anonymously famous.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Way Want Kind Doe Home Kids School Used Names Nice Shops Bad Things Be Kind Know Me

Author:Terry O'Quinn

“It's nice to be able to backtrack and not be embarrassed by the music you used to listen to.”

Able Used Nice Embarrassed

Author:Will Oldham

“I like to watch comedies; the most dramatic that I used to get was 'Forrest Gump.'”

Used Watches Comedy Dramatic Forrest Gump

Author:Evan Peters

“I used to look at horror movies as being really real and it would totally freak me out and give me nightmares. Now I watch and think, 'whoa how'd they do that?”

Thinking Giving Looks Real Used Watches Horror Give Me Nightmare Freak Being Real

Author:Evan Peters

“The older you get, the more you find yourself looking for things you used to see and liked when you were younger.”

Used Finding Yourself

Author:Jonathan Pryce

“Japan suffered terribly from the atomic bomb but never adopted a pose of moral superiority, implying: 'We would never have done it!' The Japanese know perfectly well they would have used it had they had it. They accept the idea that war is war; they give no quarter and accept none. Total war, they recognize, knows no Queensberry Rules. If you develop a devastating new weapon during a total war, you use it; you do not put it into the War Museum.”

Source: The land of the rising yen: Japan

“I don't believe virginity is common as it used to be.”

Believe Used Common Profound Don't Believe Used To Be Virginity

Author:Don Williams

“When I was young I used to practice a martial art that was a mixture of karate, kung fu, Jujitsu, Yawara Kubotan, Aikido, Okinawan kobudo, Newaza, etc.; now I am just a theoretical samurai or a bushido scholar if you prefer.”

Ifs Art Young Used Practice Etc Martial Arts Scholar Mixtures Theoretical Karate Samurai Kung Fu Aikido Bushido

Author:William C. Brown

“In all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect methods will be needed in order to secure victory. Indirect tactics, efficiently applied, are inexhaustible as Heaven and Earth, unending as the flow of rivers and streams; like the sun and moon, they end but to begin anew; like the four seasons, they pass away to return once more.”

Source: The Art of War

“God's used me to help turn their life around or give them hope, you know? It's very rewarding”

Knows Giving God Helping Used Turns

Author:Joel Osteen

“And that is why I think that God has used it in churches because we have seen a lot of healing take place in churches and we have seen a lot of healing take place in families.”

Thinking God Used Church Healing

Author:Kerry Shook

“Take the particular trick of false names. It seems to us particularly odious. We think when we show our contempt for those who use this subterfuge that we are giving them no more than they deserve. It is a meanness which we associate with criminals and vagabonds; a piece of crawling and sneaking...Men whose race is universally known, will unblushingly adopt a false name as a mask, and after a year or two pretend to treat it as an insult if their original and true name be used in its place.”

Source: The Jews

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